I’m often coming up with things to keep and save to show to Jackson when he’s a bit older and when I mention them to people they tend to go ‘oh I hadn’t even thought of that’ so I thought I’d compile a list:

• My pregnancy test! I just couldn’t bring myself to throw it away! The start of the journey.
• The hat the hospital put him in – not that it stayed on for 5 mins, big head!
• The sensors from the tests he had at the NICU that the nurse kindly gave to me.
• His umbilical cord clip. I drew the line at the actual shrivelled cord and threw that out in disgust!
• His first size nappy (unused!) even looking back now I cannot believe he was that small!
• I wish I had managed to get a newspaper the day he was born but I only thought of this a week later and it was too late by then.
• I saved the Argos catalogue from the season and year he was born (spring/summer 2014) so that when he is older he can look back at what was around when he was born, how old fashioned the people look, how low tech the toys are and LOOK at those phones, they’re huge!
• His first size nappy (unused!) even looking back now I cannot believe he was that small!
• His first shoes. Everyone does this right?
• Any currency that disappears during his lifetime. I’m going to keep a purse filled with it, starting with the old paper £5 note. Otherwise when he’s a bit older he won’t believe that notes were once paper and we all hated the plastic replacements! And now I’m adding an old £1 coin, round and one colour? He will never believe it!

Have you kept anything else? I’d love to get more ideas, and I might add them to this list so please let me know!!